Voldemort killed personally?

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 157175

> > aussie wrote:
> ><snip> For a long time I have thought young Tom is 
> > repeated in young Draco.
> 
> Carol responds:
> However snooty and prejudiced and generally obnoxious Draco may 
be, he
> has yet to hang his schoolmates' pets from the rafters or torture 
them
> in caves. 

aussie:-
Oops, mine was poorly worded.

I had an earlier post where I suggested Young Tom met Grindalwald 
and was enticed to seek out and take revenge on his muggle father. 
Grindalwald had an alternative motivation for urging Tommy to kill. 
That was to have the youngster split his soul and be a fertile heir 
to the Dark Wizard.

Likewise, I thought Young Draco was forced to repeat Tom's pre-adult 
experience to inherit this Dark Wizard's age old quest. The 
suggested - Revenge against Lucius Malfoy - is too simplistic a 
motive.

For LV to forbid any of the other DE on the Tower to finally AK DD, 
there had to be an deeper, hidden motive to put Draco through that 
soul splitting situation.

Young Regulus was singled out for (maybe) the same reason years ago. 
The Task set was so abhorant that death was preferable. 

(Since Tom killed his father; and Draco was sent to kill 
his "Patriarch"; maybe Regulus was sent to kill Sirius or his Uncle. 
Both were stricken from the House of Black's tapestry. Both may have 
been similar victims as Tom and Draco had to target. Both would be 
motive enough for Regulus to rebel against LV.)

> Carol: <SNIPPED>
> Tom Riddle,... neither heredity nor environment can explain the 
> cruelty he displays from a very early age. Yes, both Draco 
> and Tom think they're special, but so do James Potter and Sirius 
> Black, ...There's a huge difference between the bullying and 
> arrogance we see ...even adding in Draco's views on pureblood 
> superiority which the other two don't share, and the
> completely amoral inhumanity of young Tom Riddle, ...
> 
> Comparing Draco to young Tom Riddle is like comparing Buckbeak to 
> the Basilisk. IMO, there's no comparison.
> 
> Carol, wondering where the Snape posts have gone
>
aussie:
Although these last paragraphs follow a line of thought I didn't 
intend, Carol expresses a good distinction between Tom and Draco.

DD saw redeeming qualities in Draco to give him time through the 
year and a calming talk on the tower to save him from his task. 

For those that believe in a good Snape, the fact that Snape twarted 
LV's plan for Young Draco to do the AK-ing may have seriously 
altered LV hidden plan for Draco. DD was dead, Yes. But Draco was 
returned to LV with his soul in one piece. Not what the Dark Lord 
needed ... maybe.

aussie (still not convinced Snape is totally good)